Wrong keypad bindings for some keys in emacs 23.1 under CentOS 6

Wrong keypad bindings for some keys in emacs 23.1 under CentOS 6

[Bryan Wright]

Hi folks,

     I'm preparing to transition some machines from CentOS 5.7 (with emacs 21.4)
to CentOS 6 (with emacs 23.1).  Some of our users rely on using the non-window
version of emacs and the tpu-edt package, which makes use of the keypad keys.

     I find that emacs 23.1 under CentOS 6 has some mistakes in the key bindings
for the keypad.  For example, the escape sequence "\eOQ" should be bound to 
[kp-f2], but it's really bound to [f2], and the sequence "\eOn" should be bound
to [kp-decimal], but it's not bound to anything at all.

     Can anybody point me to a quick way to remap these keys?  I've been playing
around with "define-key" and "global-set-key", but haven't had any luck yet.

                               Thanks in advance,
                               Bryan

Re: Wrong keypad bindings for some keys in emacs 23.1 under CentOS 6

[Philipp Haselwarter]

take a look at `input-decode-map' and try something like

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-key input-decode-map (kbd "C-e O Q") (kbd "kp-f2"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

hth,

-- 
Philipp Haselwarter

Re: Wrong keypad bindings for some keys in emacs 23.1 under CentOS 6

[Bryan Wright]

Excellent! that was the clue I needed.  For the record, here's the code that
fixes the keypad problems:

(define-key input-decode-map (kbd "\eOP") [kp-f1])
(define-key input-decode-map (kbd "\eOQ") [kp-f2])
(define-key input-decode-map (kbd "\eOR") [kp-f3])
(define-key input-decode-map (kbd "\eOS") [kp-f4])
(define-key input-decode-map (kbd "\eOn") [kp-decimal])

                                 Thanks,
                                 Bryan